McClintock told the court Rush had forged a reputation as one of Australia’s best-known actors over an almost 50-year career.
Geoffrey Rush and the woman at the centre of a defamation trial between the actor and Sydney newspaper the Daily Telegraph exchanged familiar and “affectionate” emails with one another after the alleged inappropriate behaviour at the centre of a defamation trial had occurred.
Rush, he said, had been a “household name” and a “national living treasure” with “no scandal attached to his name”.
McClintock also accused Moran, the author of the articles, of telling “bare-faced lies” in some of the articles complained about.